I almost feel like Touko getting focus is justified, but I wouldn't be able to explain why I'm more okay with it happening to her than I am to it happening to Kiritsugu specifically.
I almost feel like Touko getting focus is justified, but I wouldn't be able to explain why I'm more okay with it happening to her than I am to it happening to Kiritsugu specifically.
Maybe Kiritsugu gave extra incentive for self-defense classes? That's how I could see it being spun.
Sounds pretty literal to me.Originally Posted by You
It was a sniper.
(The Mage Killer—!)
She shuddered. This approach was the bread and butter of a mercenary from the last century who went by the aforementioned name.
For a mage on Rin's level, her Magic Crest could heal about any wound, but having a vital organ pierced was a different story. The Mage Killer of old exploited mages' prides, using his magecraft and other tricks as a decoy to finish them off with modern weaponry. Depending on the situation, he wouldn't shy away from demolishing a whole hotel with bombs and rocket launchers because a mage was waiting to take him on inside.
His cutthroat attitude shook up the world of magecraft, to the point that the Clock Tower turned self-defense, a curriculum that includes countermeasures against him, into a mandatory discipline. And this mafia seems to have learned from his MO.
Oh so the class already existed, it was just made mandatory because it could help against Kiritsugu or anyone with an adjacent tfighting style then? I thought it was literally created for Kiritsugu specifically
Because she's easier to simp?
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I actually don't even like Touko that much LOL. There is one character I'll always clap for though.
Don't like this.
Before, this section shows how Kairi is capable of thinking as both a magus (hotel room into a workshop) and a freelancer who knows how to fight against magi (bomb the hotel). Juxtaposing the narration this way emphasizes the duality of his unique experience as a researcher turned freelancer. Loses its impact now all the millennial magi are taught to think like this.Kairi Shishigou and Red Saber reached Trifas after one night's journey. Shishigou, holding back Saber - enthusiastically pushing to start a fight as quickly as possible - and downing an herbal mixture to stave off his drowsiness, set about the business of creating a workshop.
He had considered renting a hotel room, but that place would most certainly warrant the greatest attention to the enemy. However he may alter a hotel room into a usable workshop, it does not change the fact that such a building is weak. And there are those in the world who think nothing of blowing apart an entire building to get at a single room.
Though abandoned, forgotten, and scorned as out-of-date dolls, they continue to carry out their mission, unchanged from the time they were designed.
Machines do not lose their worth when a newer model appears.
Their worth (life) ends when humans can no longer bear that purity.
I know that part of the reason this arc is drumming up Kiritsugu is because he has ties to Shirou who through association is indirectly linked to the plot thread of Kayneth's death, but it just set a really bad precedent for me in the future where his infamy is surely going to be brought more times again in the future in ways I'm not sure I'll like because of this.
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It's actually more direct of a connection than linking Shirou to Kayneth's death. Kiritsugu's more immediately relevant to this volume because he gave Origin Bullets to the Monaco mafia years ago, and they're after Shirou because when the bullets go missing they assume the kid named Emiya did it.
I'm just laughing at the prospect of Kerry in a textbook.
I think you guys are forgetting that this piece of lore serves to refresh the memory of a reader who might not necessarily remember all of the nuances of the fate universe. We know Shirou's around, we know he has associations to Kiritsugu, so when Ziz is murdered with an origin bullet and Shirou is blamed for it, it's for us, the audience, to go "ah, I see Shirou has now inadvertently been framed due to the actions of a third party! Hoo hoo, how is he gonna get out of it this time, I wonder? Hee hee!"
Edit: What Reign said basically lol
Strange Fake having not one, not two, but three characters whose pasts is inextricably linked to Kiritsugu was the prelude to this...
(Unrelatedly, I feel vindicated that my old fic idea of using the FHA Fem Casa incident to make it about Shirou planning to win the game to obtain a way, either a prize or Van-Fem himself, to give Illya a normal body was actually plausible. I should dust it off again.)
The most disturbing thing said in the last few pages tbh
It's valid. KnK Touko was peak, but Mahoyo and Case Files Touko is ass.
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I like her, but not "holler and cheer whenever she gets mentioned" levels of like.
With the new information that Van-Fem’s castle golems have carbon copied human bodies, that’s really uncanny.
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I think Kairi is Gen X, not millennial
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Touko is the Forrest Gump of the Nasuverse. We could play Six Degrees of Aozaki with every character.
It feels like Sanda absorbed the "guns > magic in le Nasuverse" common fandom misconception
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Yeah, I was referring to Rin's generation and after
Though abandoned, forgotten, and scorned as out-of-date dolls, they continue to carry out their mission, unchanged from the time they were designed.
Machines do not lose their worth when a newer model appears.
Their worth (life) ends when humans can no longer bear that purity.
Just imagine poor Shirou learning about this in class.
Instructor: Good afternoon students, today we'll be discussing the tactics used by Kiritsugu Emiya when he brought down Flight A300 from Paris to New York. Mr. Emiya, any thoughts in how Mr. Emiya made the tactical decisions he did on this day? Why a rocket launcher, for example?
Shirou: This is hell, I've died and I'm in hell
Narita uses clap in a fun way that makes his bombastic universe and characters more ridiculous, in a good way.
Sanda uses clap because he can't write any interesting characters himself and even his worldbuilding relies on Nasu vomiting up his lore into his dirty, filthy mouth like a mother bird.
They are not the same.
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